SERPGuard is a free alert service that checks the Google Safe Browsing Blacklists for your domain(s). You may create an account, log in and add all your sites into one simple interface. If our system detects any of your URLs on the Google phishing or malware blacklists, we will send you an RSS message and [...]

Here’s a quick link opportunity I’ll share with you. Quite a few people have pondered about getting links from the uber-popular Twitter. I had much the same thoughts as NickyCakes when I first saw that the only followed links in the service pointed to the posting applications.
Strangely enough there is a much easier link opportunity [...]

Hopefully you’ve already heard of SPF records, one of the new ways to fight spam across the internet. When a mail server receives an email it can check the DNS zone of the sending domain for a SPF record. That will tell them if the email did indeed come from that domain name, using an [...]

Britannica have announced in their blog that they will open up their online encyclopedia to online contributions, placing them into direct competition with Wikipedia.
This new initiative will mean a complete redesign of the site. Under their current subscription model, only a small part of their content is published on the web. They intend to add [...]

Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, has finally waded in on the issue of fake linkbait. Jonathan Crossfield (aka Kimota) provides some background information on the controversy.
In summary, Lyndon Antcliff posted a satirical story on a client’s site, which ended up being quoted on several mainstream news channels. Critics have claimed that Lyndon manipulated [...]

Dan Thies is one of the most experienced SEOs in the industry, so when he releases a post or e-book you’d be wise to pay attention. Dan has just completed his updates for his free e-book “SEO Fast Start 2008″ and posted it to his site. You can download it here
This e-book is an excellent [...]

As my regular readers know, we recently launched an RSS aggregator called SocialBlogroll.com. The project went very well and it’s now happily churning through 1500+ news feeds from the online marketing community. Viewing all those feeds and blogs made me realise that more than a few people out there aren’t aware of the following tips. [...]

I have several sites in our Google Analytics account, as most people do I suspect. However I noticed this morning that Google seems to be mixing up the data in a couple of them. Here’s a screenshot of the content report (pageviews/traffic by content) when logged in as RussianMarketer.com:

As you can see, there are several [...]

There’s a new site allowing public reviews of SEM companies and you just know that means trouble. The site is called SEMCompare and is brought to us by the same people who launched the Search Marketing Standard magazine. As Kalena noted, they already have a few negative reviews for known companies in the SEO/SEM industry. [...]

One of my luxuries as an ex-pat living in Russia is receiving my copy of The Week. It contains all the important material from the UK newspapers condensed down into one magazine. One section I usually skip over are the obituaries, but this week one of them caught my eye. Joseph Juran, the father of [...]